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Should we start an escrow account for bail?
Ava and I are always comparing notes about children. Ours were born opposite. My oldest is the girl and her oldest is the boy and vice versa with the youngest.
We see so many similarities with the age that we don’t see with the sex of the children. What the hell are you talking about, you ask? We have examples.
On Independence Day we lit off some firecrackers in the back yard. Ava’s family did the same thing across town. In both instances, the youngest child was damn near gleeful when they learned that what we were doing was technically illegal. (If you’re the authorities then none of this is true. This blog is fiction. We don’t even have children. In fact, we’re two men named Bob and Phil.) The Bandit’s enjoyment in July 4th activities was seriously magnified by the prospect of police intervention. The same seems to be true of The Girl who Lives at Ava’s House.
This concerns Ava and I that our youngest children have no real concern about getting in trouble. Both are also consummate liars. If they pick a story, there’s pretty much nothing you can do or say that will make them drop their pretense. Both of our cases, the oldest child is easily broken. Both The Boy Who Lives at Ava’s House and Sassy will cave with a stern look. You flash an eyebrow at one of those kids, and they’ll sing like a bird.
When alcohol has been offered to them in a family situation – with Sassy it was dessert with wine in it (all of the alcohol had cooked off) and with the boy it was the smallest sip of champagne at a 50 Wedding Anniversary Party (he’s 15 for crying out loud) the kids freaked out. Sassy seems genuinely concerned that one bite of a French dessert will turn her into a raving dipsomaniac of homeless proportions. The last time wine was served at dinner The Bandit was stealing sips and TGWLAH was all over the champagne and peach nectar at the party.
Does anyone else see this? The oldest child is a rule follower and the youngest seems to be the perfect fit for the mob.
LOL If that help ease your mind. But yes I suppose it’s true about the eldest being a rule follower where as the youngest is the one to break all of them. I guess the eldest made it easier for the younger ones to fly by. Good luck 😉
I think it totally is. I’m the oldest and I’m a rule follower. My brother is a free spirit. I think we’re really on to something here.
I was the oldest and I’m a rule follower. My brother is a free-spirited sorta dude. I think we’re totally on to something here.
It’s generally known that the oldest child is more responsible because the parent(s) are much more neurotic/protective in raising the first child because it’s their first rodeo and hence the child turns out a certain way. When the second one comes they have loosened the reigns, and the second one turns out to be a free spirit – but only if a third child is not in the picture. If a 3rd child comes along, the dynamics for the 2nd child change. Neither you nor Ava have a third child … yet. Now is there anything else about child rearing that the childless by choice woman needs to explain to you girls?
We understand all that intellectually but in practice it’s astonishing. And you shut your mouth about that third child yet business. That’s not funny.
I was the second child. My older brother did everything perfectly, so it seemed, but I got in trouble all the time.